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Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits.…
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits. Two discourses, one in a letter to an unknown doubter, the other in a reply to Dr. Henry Moore's Animadversions on a private letter to him, which he published in his second edition of Mr. Joseph Glanvil's Sadducismus triumphatus, or, History of apparitions by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And what wonder is it, if we have Christians that in Satan's Image fight against Christ, even PERJURED, MALIGNANT, PERSECUTING Christians, haters of those that seriously practice the baptismal Vow, when they are PERJURED and ⟨image 59⟩Perfidious Violators of it themselves, as to the prevalent bent of heart and life.
And what wonder is it, if we have Christians that in Satans Image fight against Christ, even PERJURED, MALIGNANT, PERSECUTING Christians, haters of those that seriously practice the baptismal Vow, when they are PERJURED and ⟨image 59⟩Perfidious Violaters of it themselves, as to the prevalent bent of heart and life.
These Hypocrite nominal Ceremony Christians, become the great hinderance of the cure of Infidelity in the world. It is the SPIRIT by its supernatural Works, which is the great Witness of Christ, and the infallible proof of supernatural Revelation. These witnessing works of the Spirit, are these five: 1. His Antecedent Prophecies. 2. His inherent Divine impress on the Person, Works, and Gospel of Christ. 3. His concomitant Testimony in Christs uncontrolled numerous Miracles, Resurrection and Ascension. 4. His subsequent Testimony in the numerous uncontrolled Miracles of the Apostles, and supernatural gifts to the Christians of that Age. But tho the History of these be as infallibly delivered to us, as any in the world; […] the distance hindereth the belief of some, who have not this history well opened to them. 5. Therefore God hath continued to the end of the world a more excellent Testimony than miracles (thought not so apt to work on sense) even the special regenerating sanctifying work of the Spirit of Christ, on the souls of all sincere Believers: The raising of Souls to a Divine and Heavenly Disposition, and Conversation, to live to God and the common good, in the comfortable hopes of an everlasting heavenly glory, as purchased and given by our Redeemer, conquering the allurements of the world and flesh, the temptations ⟨image 60⟩